Publication Date:09/09/2010
The designation of land as a Conservation Area is not a death sentence on your development proposals but it does mean your scheme has a few more hoops to jump through to get all the necessary planning consents present and correct before starting works.
Publication Date:09/09/2010
If you rent office space, you may want to give your premises a make-over at some point. If you do, you need to make sure you comply with the terms of your lease and any consent document, or your landlord may be entitled to force you to remove the work you’ve done, or even forfeit the lease.
Publication Date:09/09/2010
In our last edition of partnership e-news, we mentioned that we would be looking in a little more detail at some of the regulatory and ethical issues that arise from outsourcing legal work.
Publication Date:09/09/2010
Last year there was a reasonable level of merger activity in the legal market with the consummation of a number of high profile mergers: Hill Dickinson and Middleton Potts, Speechly Bircham and Campbell Hooper, Beachcroft’s takeover of the Kingslegal insurance business. The year ended with the announcement of the transatlantic pairing of Lovells and Hogan & Hartson. In parts of the sector we saw a number of defensive mergers, firms looking to the safety of consolidation as a route out of the recession.
Publication Date:09/09/2010
If your firm wins a substantial client appointment in place of the incumbent advisers, should your firm be concerned about the potential transfer to it of employees from the outgoing firm who undertook work for the client? This will depend upon how the handover takes place and in particular the transfer of work in progress will be a key factor in determining whether or not TUPE applies.
Publication Date:09/09/2010
The main provisions of the Equality Act 2010 come into force on 1 October 2010. This is the first attempt to recast diversity law as a coherent whole, bringing sex, race, religion and the other strands of discrimination together. As well as recasting the law, the Act develops the existing legislation with a number of measures designed to make it more effective. This inbrief focuses on the new measures in an employment context.
Publication Date:08/09/2010
The Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”) comes into force in April 2011 and reforms and consolidates what has been, up to now, a piecemeal approach to anti-corruption law in England and Wales. The Act creates four criminal offences: giving bribes, receiving bribes, bribery of foreign public officials, and failure by a commercial organisation to prevent bribery by employee or agent.
Publication Date:08/09/2010
Are you considering building your own home? It is a dream for many and is probably going to be the biggest financial investment you ever make with costs likely to run perhaps into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Publication Date:03/09/2010
It is a fundamental rule in property law that the duration of a lease must, from the outset, be certain or capable of being rendered certain. If it is not, the lease will be deemed void.
Publication Date:03/09/2010
Historically those involved in the property sector did not have to concern themselves with the Competition Act 1998 (“the Act”).